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- - Xiaoting Jia wins CAREER award to develop bio-friendly brain implants
    Jia, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation award to develop a multifunctional neural interface device that is highly flexible, scalable, clinically translatable, and bio-friendly.
- - Don Maffei named interim chief executive officer of the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation
    Maffei has served since 2017 as the vice president of finance and administration for the organization, which helps forge connections between Virginia Tech's research enterprise and industry and government groups seeking technological and data solutions.
- - Google Faculty Research Award supports work in detecting human-object interaction in images and videos
    With the award, Jia-Bin Huang will tackle challenges of modeling the relationship between a person and relevant objects/scene to gather contextual information and mining hard examples automatically from unlabeled but interaction-rich videos.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team places second in first year of EcoCAR Mobility Challenge
    The team will receive a 2019 Chevy Blazer in August 2019, which they will modify to incorporate their designs from year one.
- - Harpreet S. Dhillon named Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellow
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Dhillon has earned a reputation of being a talented researcher, having consistently produced seminal research results that have been extensively cited and utilized by his peers worldwide.
- - Researchers look toward future 6G wireless systems
    In the white paper titled, "A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems," Walid Saad, associate professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, explores the future of wireless communication systems.
- - Chance encounter becomes a career of innovation for alumnus Steven Bathiche
    Responding to a flyer on a bulletin board in Whittemore Hall led electrical engineering alumnus Bathiche ’97 to a decades-long career at Microsoft, where he’s helped pioneer some of the company’s most innovative interfaces.
- - Virginia Tech engineers victorious with another first place at agBOT
    The agBOT competition consisted of two separate contests: a weed and seed event and a competition to design an autonomous system that can collect, store, and prepare a soil sample for analysis.
- - Three faculty members named to lead planning for university shared research facilities
    These three accomplished researchers are part of the inaugural cohort of the Faculty Fellows Program of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, which puts faculty leaders at the forefront of strategic research initiatives.
- - Eric Paterson, Jeffrey Reed to fill leadership roles in strategic university initiatives
    Paterson has been named interim executive director of the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology. Reed will step in to serve as interim executive director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.
- - A sprint to the finish for Virginia Tech Blockchain Challenge finalists
    On May 9, five student teams will compete for $25,000 in prizes as part of their systems capstone course called Blockchain Technologies.
- - Meet the GameChangineers of Mecklenburg County
    A team of teen Virginia 4-H’ers opens up a learning pathway to coding for students in Southern Virginia.
- - Fralin Fellow uses engineering to improve the biomedical field
    Elieser Mejia, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, is passionate about advancing the field of medicine while bridging the disciplinary gap between electrical engineering and neuroscience.
- - Researchers aim to enhance lost person search and rescue efforts using drones, artificial intelligence
    Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group of Virginia Tech engineers hopes to redefine search and rescue protocols by teaming up human searchers with unmanned aerial robots, or drones.
- - Vice President of Microsoft Hardware Steven Bathiche to speak as part of lecture series
    Bathiche will present “Disruptive Evolution of Computers through New Interactive Technologies” as part of the Bradley Distinguished Lecture series on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, Goodwin Hall Room 190, on April 19 at 4 p.m. The talk is open to the public.
- - Engineers seek to address treatment deficiencies, research disparity in pelvic organ prolapse
    Though not life-threatening, pelvic organ prolapse is a debilitating condition that affects half of all women over the age of 50 and is difficult to treat. A recent grant from the National Science Foundation equips Virginia Tech researchers with the goal of improving overall treatment approaches.
- - Wayne Scales named J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering
    Scales joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1992 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1998, a professor in 2006, and the founding director of the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research in 2007.
- - Charles Clancy named Bradley Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity
    Clancy has built a distinguished career through his pioneering research in the fields of communications security, cognitive radio, and cryptographic authentication, and broader impact to the university’s growth of programs in cybersecurity.
- - U.S. Department of Energy awards Virginia Tech researchers $1.8 million to tackle challenges facing U.S. power grid
    Solar and wind energy sources rapidly change or vary throughout the day, presenting a new challenge to the grid.
- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.

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